7th Oct 2014.
World Junior Chess Championship ..... and Nihal Sarin, He U10 Champ
Posted on the 07 October 2014 by Sampathkumar Sampath
Do you know or
group … : Dariusz Świercz, Alexander
Ipatov , Yu Yangyi - couple of names give an inkling that they
could be associated with some game like Chess – there is odd one in that too.
Heartening to read the Gold
medal winning Men’s Hockey team were accorded a rousing reception on their
arrival in the national Capital in the wee hours of Sunday. "Cricket is politics. Bad politics.
Things change overnight. I believe that the governing body of cricket could
change; I believe it should change. I am happy for now, but I would be happy to
come back. Anything can happen in cricket." – words of a famous player who
made 8181 test runs and 4440 One day runs ….
No prize for guessing the person who released his autobiography recently
– Kevin Pietersen who said this about
his sacking - "They needed a scapegoat, preferably someone big, boisterous
and annoying. Somebody with a little history. Somebody who left colourful
footprints on the pristine white carpets. I didn't always tread wisely. I was
often naive and sometimes stupid. I was no villain, though.
Back home, India's selectors
have gambled on teenage chinaman bowler Kuldeep Yadav, who has had an
impressive Champions League T20 campaign, in the 14-man squad for the first
three ODIs against West Indies. The major changes in the squad came in the spin
department, with lead spinner R Ashwin rested, Amit Mishra returning and
legspinner Karn Sharma missing out. Or should it read Ashwin dropped !! WI are to play 5 One dayers, a solitary T20
and 3 tests.
After IPL and CLT20, we had
Kabbadi league too – and there is news of Indian Super League - aided by marquee signings like Alessandro del
Piero, Robert Pires, Zico, Peter Reid, Marco Materazzi, David James, Nicolas
Anelka, Manuel Friedrich, Luis Garcia, Adrian Mutu, David Trezeguet and Freddie
Ljungberg — While those names would
attract the football fan, the sponsors
too had to be famous to attract and in
came Ranbir Kapoor, John Abraham, Varun Dhawan and Salman Khan from Bollywood.
And to top it, cricketers Sourav Ganguly, Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli and
finally, the one and only MS Dhoni.
Getting back
to the Q – those are the World Junior Chess Champions in recent years. Dariusz Świercz is a Polish chess grandmaster; the youngest
Polish grandmaster of all time, achieving the title at the age of 14 years and
seven months in 2009. Świercz won the
U20 section of the 2011 World Junior Chess Championship at the age of 17; Alexander
Ipatov is an International Chess Grand Master and one
of the top chess players inTurkey. Yu Yangyi at the age of 15, became China's 29th
Grandmaster.
The World Junior Chess
Championship is an under-20 chess tournament (players must have been under 20
years old on 1 January in the year of competition) organized by the World Chess
Federation (FIDE). The idea was the brainchild of William Ritson-Morry, who
organized the 1951 inaugural event to take place in Birmingham, England. Each FIDE member nation may select one entrant
except for the host nation, which may select two. Currently the winner receives the Grandmaster
or Woman Grandmaster title. Four winners – Boris Spassky, Anatoly Karpov, Garry
Kasparov and Viswanathan Anand – have gone on to win the World Chess Championship.
7th Oct 2014.
7th Oct 2014.